Margit Schwikowski

CHEMIST, Responsible SNF-Agora-project Girls on Ice Switzerland

For more than 20 years, Margit Schwikowski from the Paul Scherrer Institute has been working on eternal ice. As a chemist, she examines trace elements in ice cores that reflect the environmental conditions of the past. For the drilling of these ice cores, Margit has carried out numerous expeditions to high-alpine glaciers all over the world. Personally, she is fascinated by the purity of the ice in which, for example, pollutants can often only be detected in ultrafine traces.